Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 19:28:20 GMT
Server: NCSA/1.5
Content-type: text/html
Last-modified: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 21:12:37 GMT
Content-length: 3530

<HTML> 
<HEAD><TITLE>UCLA Cognitive Systems Laboratory (Experimental) </TITLE></HEAD>
<BODY>
 
<!----------------------- Introduction ----------------------->

<H1>UCLA Cognitive Systems Laboratory:</H1>

<DD> <em>Director</em>: <!WA0><A HREF="http://singapore.cs.ucla.edu/pearl.html">Judea Pearl<p></A>

<DD> <em>Research Associates</em>: Norman Dalkey, Avi Dechter, and Rina Dechter<p>

<DD> <em>Visiting Scholars</em>: Rachel Ben-Eliyahu, Adnan Darwiche, Hector Geffner,
Dan Geiger, and Moises Goldszmidt<p>

<DD> <em>Graduate Students</em>:
<UL>
<DD><LI> <!WA1><A HREF="http://singapore.cs.ucla.edu/balke.html">Balke, Alexander A.</A>
<DD><LI> Cao, Huy Thanh
<DD><LI> <!WA2><A HREF="http://singapore.cs.ucla.edu/galles.html">Galles, David J.</A>
<DD><LI> <!WA3><A HREF="http://singapore.cs.ucla.edu/tan.html">Tan, Sek-Wah</A>
<DD><LI> Verma, Thomas
<DD><LI> Yu, Stanley
</UL>

<DD> <em>Administrative Assistant</em>: <!WA4><A HREF="http://www.cs.ucla.edu/csd/people/staff_pages/kaoru.html">Kaoru Mulvihill</A><p>

<!----------------------- Research Areas ----------------------->
<HR>
<H1> Research Areas:</H1>

<H2>EVIDENTIAL REASONING</H2>
(N. Dalkey, H. Geffner, J. Pearl)<p>
distributed interpretation of multi-source data in networks of partial
beliefs<p>

<H2>LEARNING</H2>
(<!WA5><A HREF="http://singapore.cs.ucla.edu/balke.html">A. Balke</A>, R. Dechter, J. Pearl, <!WA6><A HREF="http://singapore.cs.ucla.edu/tan.html">S.-W. Tan</A>, T.
Verma)<p>
structuring and parameterizing links in belief networks to form 
a representation consistent with a stream of observations<p>

<H2>CONSTRAINT PROCESSING</H2>
(R. Ben-Eliyahu, A. Dechter, R. Dechter, J.  Pearl)<p>
intelligent backtracking, learning while searching,
restructuring constraint networks, truth maintenance systems,
temporal reasoning<p>

<H2>GRAPHOIDS</H2>
(D. Geiger, A. Paz, J. Pearl, T. Verma)<p>
characterization of informational dependencies and their graph
representations<p>

<H2>DEFAULT REASONING</H2>
(R. Ben-Eliyahu, H. Geffner, M. Goldszmidt, J. Pearl, <!WA7><A
HREF="http://singapore.cs.ucla.edu/tan.html">S.-W. Tan</A>)<p>
qualitative probabilistic reasoning; drawing
plausible and defeasible conclusions from
incomplete information<p>

<!----------------------- Supporting Grants ----------------------->
<HR>
<H2>SUPPORTING GRANTS</H2>
<UL>
<LI> NSF: Probabilistic Networks for Automated Reasoning
		IRI-9200918
<LI> ITT: Theoretical Foundations of Reasoning and Heuristics as 
	Related to Causal Networks
		B-VRS DNS/ITT
<LI> NORTHROP: Industrial gift to support the research of the 
	Cognitive Systems Laboratory
		NORTHROP CORP - INDEF
<LI> AIRFORCE: Dynamic Constraint-Networks
	Airforce Office of Scientific Research.
		AFOSR 90 0136
<LI> NORTHROP: Distributed Diagnosis of Systems with Multiple Faults
	Northrop Corporation (Micro)
		93-124
<LI> ROCKWELL: Strategies for Reasoning in an Uncertain Environment
	Rockwell International (Micro)
		93-124
</UL>
<!----------------------- Publications ----------------------->
<HR>
<H1> Publications:</H1>
A selected
<!WA8><A HREF="http://singapore.cs.ucla.edu/biblio.html">bibliography</A>
is availble.<p>

Paper collections:
<UL>
<LI> <!WA9><A HREF="http://singapore.cs.ucla.edu/csl_papers.html">Statistical
Series</A>
</UL>

REPORT REQUESTS are to be directed to:<p>
<address>
Prof. Judea Pearl (judea@cs.ucla.edu)</br>
UCLA Computer Science Department</br>
6291 Boelter Hall</br>
Los Angeles, California 90024-1596</br>
(310) 825-3243</br>
</address>

<HR>
Other lab pages can be found through <!WA10><A
HREF="http://singapore.cs.ucla.edu/index.html">this link</A>.<p>

<address>
Kaoru Mulvihill (kaoru@cs.ucla.edu)</br>
UCLA Computer Science Department</br>
6291 Boelter Hall</br>
Los Angeles, California 90024-1596</br>
(310) 825-3243</br>
</address>

<!-- @(#)$Id: index.html,v 0.1 1994/11/23 14:45 tan Exp tan $ -->
 
</BODY>
</HTML>
